Raman.P wrote:
Dear luggies
Consequent to the interest ILUGC has generated among students, I am getting lot
of request for suggesting proects.
In some colleges, they have decided out-and-out FOSS based projects.
Please suggest projects ideas.
So the October season has started. I wait for the day when the season
starts with a mail "I am interested to do this project and I have the
following ideas to go about doing it..".
Please keep in mind the constraints
a. The projects are not fulltime for B.E students
b. Most will have only preliminary knowledge - but can pickup fast.
c. Should point out resources available on ne
Though I tend to say that the students should typically start looking at
ToDos, Wishlists and Unresolved open bugs of FOSS projects, get in touch
with the contributors/devels and try to put their effort on something
which is there and to be made better, I am myself wonder whether their
college is going to encourage them to take those as Final Year projects
as their definition of such things still remain to be mostly tangled in
IEEE papers. If the college permits such endeavours, them as sure that
there is enough work to be done for another 3-4 years just from the
existing pile of work to be done. Almost every famous project has half a
dozen things which new contributors can take up and try it out. There
are lots of people in this list itself who are someway or other
associated with FOSS projects and would be able to provide the needed
feed to much on for a season or two. I know we are tired of asking them
to start early, learn the art and the tool, have some plan by the start
of the season so they have more clue of what to do during the season.
I still remember students who I happen to meet somewhere during the last
few days of the year (read December end) when they had 30 days or so
left and weren't even having a working Linux distribution running at
their boxes. There were some who wanted to do Qt based interface but
didn't even have the inclination to go through the Qt tutorials, which
were the fact are very good for starters. I hope things have improved
since then, but I don't expect it to have completely changed.
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With Regards,
Parthan "technofreak"
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<blog> http://blog.technofreak.in
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